At 2 p.m., Zhao Ye made a special trip to Lujiazui, where all the residents had already moved out. The entire Lujiazui area had become a huge construction site.
Hundreds of construction workers are working hard to level the land or dig foundations.
On the construction site, many machines such as loaders, bulldozers, excavators, and dump trucks can be seen everywhere.
The municipal government mobilized a large number of construction teams and machines to support the construction of the Shanghai Wujiang factory.
Of course, Wujiang Company does pay, and the amount is not low.
With the money in place, the workers are motivated to work.
After strolling around Lujiazui, Zhao Ye returned home.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he returned to the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he saw his secretary, Liu Yinyin, rushing over anxiously to tell him some bad news.
"Boss, Motorola just announced that their digital pager was successfully developed two months ago and is now in mass production. It will soon be available in the global market!"
"This news is absolutely terrible! Wujiang's good days of monopolizing digital pagers are over!" Zhao Ye sighed. "Well, since Motorola is also going to release digital pagers, let's give them a little something to celebrate!"
"Boss, Motorola is our competitor, why would we give them a gift?" Liu Yinyin asked, puzzled.
Zhao Ye smiled and said, "Pass the word down: Imagine digital pagers will have their prices reduced by 500 yuan on the day Motorola digital pagers are officially released!"
Currently, the nationwide retail price of the Imagine digital pager is 2500 RMB.
The price after the reduction is 2000 yuan.
Zhao Ye estimated that the price of Motorola digital phones would be between 2,000 and 2,500.
Imagine's digital pager wasn't much more advanced than Motorola's. The only way to beat Motorola's digital pager was with a pager featuring a Chinese character display. Until that was developed, the only option was to engage in a price war.
In this day and age, there are far too many people in China who idolize foreign things and don't think that Imagine, a product of Wujiang, is more high-end than Motorola.
Relying solely on its brand, Imagine's digital pager is clearly wishful thinking to try and compete with Motorola at the same price point.
The country's economy is still relatively underdeveloped, and people lack self-confidence.
Only when a country becomes prosperous and strong will national self-confidence return.
In 2024, people of all ages and genders will be filled with national self-confidence. Western countries will seem insignificant, nothing special. With redoubled efforts, arduous struggles, and unwavering perseverance, the Chinese people will create astonishing "China Speed" across all sectors, surpassing Canada, Italy, the UK, France, Germany, and Japan to become the world's second-largest economy, second only to the United States!
However, before the 21st century, domestic brands mostly defeated foreign brands through price wars.
At this time, many businessmen in China were eager to make a move.
"The Imagine digital pager is selling so well, I bet the Motorola digital pager will sell even better! If we could become agents for Motorola digital pagers, we'd be rich!" Liu Chuanzhi exclaimed excitedly.
Because Zhao Ye poached too many of the technical personnel from the Institute of Computing Technology, the company has abandoned the "technology-industry-trade" route.
Meanwhile, the Institute of Computing Technology's company, which acted as an agent for foreign PCs, made a fortune.
Liu Chuanzhi and others have tasted the sweetness of getting rich quick by distributing other products, and they are addicted.
Now that Motorola is about to release a digital pager, I immediately thought of becoming a distributor for this product.
"Old Liu, this is a rare opportunity. You'll have to personally help the Institute of Computing Technology secure the dealership for Motorola digital pagers!" one of Liu Chuanzhi's colleagues suggested.
“Okay, no problem!” Liu Chuanzhi smiled confidently and nodded, thinking to himself that Motorola must be eager to open up the Chinese market now, while his company, the Institute of Computing Technology, is quite powerful in China and has achieved great success in distributing PCs.
This successful experience is equally applicable to distributing digital pagers.
That same day, Yanagawa contacted Motorola's office in China.
The staff at the branch office immediately reported to headquarters that the Institute of Computing Technology wanted to become the exclusive distributor of Motorola digital pagers. After reviewing the Institute's strength and background, headquarters immediately appointed the Institute as the exclusive distributor of Motorola digital pagers in China.
Just as the industry and distributors were shocked and ecstatic about Motorola's digital pager.
Zhao Ye didn't take it seriously. After giving Liu Yinyin his instructions, he acted as usual.
However, once the animation production team became familiar with the production style and pace of Pokémon, Zhao Ye no longer needed to come and supervise as often.
At this time, the MMC chip also entered the tape-out stage.
The tape-out process determines whether a chip design can be used.
Successful tape-out indicates that the chip has passed the factory's "assembly line production steps" with zero errors throughout the process, and subsequent production processes will be based on this.
It takes three months to fabricate a wafer, and three months to mass production. Fabrication is actually trial production.
Therefore, it will take at least six months to get the chips on the market.
At this time, Zhao Ye returned to the capital to check on the progress of each game project.
The development of these seven games—Dragon Quest, Contra, Red Fortress, Salamander, The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Pokémon—is far more difficult than that of the Kunio-kun series, and all seven are still in development to date.
Zhao Ye carefully inspected each game item.
The game development direction is basically fine, except that the art and music are somewhat different from the original. Zhao Ye can't expect the game to be exactly the same as the original; that's simply unrealistic.
Seeing that none of the seven project teams made any mistakes, Zhao Ye was very satisfied.
"I spent some time at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. Besides Pokémon, they're also working on Calabash Brothers. I think Calabash Brothers could be adapted into a game!"
Zhao Ye spoke eloquently, then introduced the story of "Calabash Brothers" and how it was adapted into a game.
As soon as he finished speaking, an RPG developer in the audience shouted, "Boss, Nintendo recently released an adventure game called Super Mario. Isn't the gameplay of your Calabash Brothers game somewhat similar to it?"
Upon hearing this, Zhao Ye smiled and readily admitted, "Yes, it's not that we want to be innovative. 'Calabash Brothers' has seven gourds of different colors, each representing a different superpower, which will make the gameplay more diverse."
After a pause, Zhao Ye countered, "So, do you think that if we develop 'Calabash Brothers,' it will be a hit?"
Super Mario has become a massive hit, sweeping across Japan and the United States and shocking the gaming world.
A similar game might actually become a hit.
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